“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The leaves, in your terms, as they fall add to further seeds. There is no difference between the leaves, the tree and the seed. These are only appearances. The seed is as much the leaf as it is the seed. It is as much the sky as it is the trunk. A tree grows as deeply within and under the earth as it does above it. It is therefore as much dirt and worms as it is bark. It is as much the birds that rest upon its branches as it is the seed that gave it birth. And in what I have said is contained the seed of your answer.

And you are Sumari now. The core is a core while it is more than the core. It is the seed. For example change core to seed. Sumari is the seed. It is also the tree that has grown from the seed and the leaves that have grown from the tree, and they all exist simultaneously. Did I get that across yet or did you like my song?

([Bette:] “All right, so we go from the seed to the tree to the leaves. Now the leaves fall off and eventually—I know that it’s the same thing like I said with our lives,  that all are going on at the same time. It’s a cycle but does it eventually all go back to the seed?”)

([Bette:] “This goes back to Sumari. Would I be right in saying that Sumari is like the very kernel or the very seed that we grow from?”)

You say that grass grows from a seed, but the grass is not the seed. The material of the grass is not the material of the seed. From experience you know that the seed will often precede grass.

[...] It is supposed to grow from seed, yet again no particle of matter is the same in grass or seed. Seed does not grow into grass. [...]

[...] Because grass appears where seeds have been sown, you have leaped to the conclusion that the matter of the seeds grows from the matter of which they are composed, and that grass grows from the actual matter of the seeds.

[...] Leave this for a moment, and consider a seed, a grass seed.

[...] The seed goes into the earth, however, and in the wintertime in any of your suburban gardens here beneath the snow are all these seeds. [...] Our seed, however, who does not have this fine intellect that sits so nicely beneath your hair and within your skull, our seed without the intellect, rests joyfully within the earth knowing it is in the midst of creativity and that from within it, again, another flower will spring. [...]

Now, the seed cannot yell out to a scientist who happens to pass and say, “Hey, look at me, I exist. [...] For the scientist, if he would heed the call and if he would take a spade and dig in the middle of February perhaps down into the earth to find our seed, would find simply a shell. He would not find the reality of the seed. [...]

[...] I have said, for example, that grass does not grow from seed. You observe that grass often appears where seed has been sown, and you conclude erroneously that the seed grows from matter within it, and that grass grows from the seed.

[...] Now take the blade of grass, and the seed. [...]

When energy in its performance brings about a complete change of form, as it does when a seed seems to grow into a blade of grass, what you have here is merely such a complete difference between the gradations which you are able to perceive, that finally you are forced to admit that the thing you take to be continuous matter has somehow or other become something entirely different.

[...] Let the subconscious bring the seed to fruition. [...] These things put a shadow over the seed.

[...] Your job now is simply to remove them, and as you remove each one, easily, to drop in a seed of positive thought to replace it.

[...] Now, mentally, have Ruburt pretend it is simply a weed, and mentally throw it over his shoulder after he has plucked it from the seed of his consciousness.

[...] A seed “knows” that it will come to life in the middle of a pot in someone’s living room. Say it is a tomato seed, and our house owner decides to start a plant from scratch. [...] The seed then knows that the sun comes, say, from the west in this particular room. [...]

(10:17.) Now give us a moment … As the cells operate with the knowledge of probable actions and still maintain the physical body in your chosen system, so the psyche, operating in the same way, “seeds” itself in many different probabilities. [...]

The shoot does not simply react to the direction from which the sun shines, but senses this far before, and the seed sensitizes itself “ahead of time” to those conditions. [...]

Give us a moment … The universe is seeded with various kinds of consciousnesses. [...]

[...] You are planting seeds, and with the books you are planting seeds, only the results are not immediately before your eyes—a good point to remember. [...]

[...] Last Saturday I bought over $30.00 worth of flower seeds, and I’m slowly trying them out in a variety of pots and containers to see which flowers do best under what circumstances—artificial light, natural light, etc. [...]

An entity can indeed in some ways be compared to a tree that brings forth many seeds, the seeds being individuals in themselves, with all the potentialities to become themselves full entities.

[...] We are dealing here with a psychic tree however, and the seeds or personalities that do not develop into entities, do not because they do not choose to do so.

I will go further and shock you thoroughly, by mentioning that your regular seeds that do not develop, do not fail as a rule because of a lack of the necessary environmental ingredients, but simply because, for various reasons during a particular arbitrary point, they do not choose to so develop.

This applies to the seeds of any flower or tree or person. [...]

Physically, the seeds of a plant fall onto the earth. They may be blown to some place distant from their birth, but the psyche’s “seeds” fly into other realities also. [...]

The pattern for those flowers serves to seed each new batch. [...]

(Most emphatically:) In a way you seed yourself into time. [...]

[...] (Seth smiled.) The possibilities that have come to reality within this universal system have each given birth to other systems and realities, as one tree bears a thousand seeds. [...]

[...] The subjective reality of one man, left alone in the universe, would emit enough energy to seed another. [...]

[...] A member of a monastic group (Jane leaned forward) who classified and collected various kinds of seeds. Now, this group worked on manuscripts officially, so to speak, but our friend here and several others were bootleg seed finders, believing against generally held theories at the time that many questions concerning nature could be found by examining nature.

They investigated the ideas, folklore and officially-held knowledge concerning botany, and seed reproduction, and began behind the monastery their own forbidden garden. [...]

The efforts on the part of seed life were unappreciated. [...]

[...] (Pause, smile.) The possibilities that have come to reality within this universal system have each given birth to other systems and other realities, as one tree bears a thousand seeds. [...]

The subjective reality of one man, left alone in the universe, would emit enough energy to seed another. [...]

Seeds of motion,

(Seth II:) We seed universes and consciousness and your animals and your plants. [...] The warm-blooded creatures that you know are seeded by our consciousness. They are the children of our dreams and so, also, do you seed other realities and other systems. [...]

[...] Your subconscious mind can be likened to the soil which can grow all kinds of seeds, good or bad. [...]

[...] Your subconscious mind can be likened to the soil which can grow all kinds of seeds, good or bad. [...]

[...] Fragment personalities could not possibly contain the whole, but they do contain the seeds of the whole.

The powers of the seeds are to remain latent, but many times they bear fruit. [...]

You must look within yourself then, for in the last analysis the beginning and the source of creativity and being reside in each individual consciousness, in the same way that each tree contains its own seed. So it is to the seed of your own knowing that you must look for such answers.

[...] He wanted to understand at one time the heredity of seeds and plants. Now he will work to understand the nature and makeup of those in quotes “unorthodox” seeds within mankind’s personality. [...]

[...] To the intimate knowledge of the earth from which now, at least, you spring and to which the seed seems to return, for you have chosen a good teacher, the earth that you have created. [...]

[...] We do not understand too clearly the nature of the reality that you are creating even though the seeds were given to you by us. [...]